1.  These Rules may be cited as the Prison (Amendment) Rules 1996 and shall come into force on 22nd July 1996.

2.  The Prison Rules 1964(1) shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in the Schedule to these Rules.

3.  Without prejudice to the operation of the Interpretation Act 1978(2), any appointment of a chairman or a vice chairman of a board of visitors for a prison made under rule 92(3) of the Prison Rules 1964 as in force prior to the commencement of these Rules shall be deemed to have been made under rule 92(3) of the Prison Rules 1964 as substituted by paragraph 4 of the Schedule to these Rules.

Michael Howard

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

24th June 1996